The COVID-19 pandemic is a global health crisis and the greatest challenge World has faced since World War Two. The virus has spread to every continent except Antarctica. Therefore, multiple strategies would be highly necessary to handle the current outbreak; these include computational modeling, statistical tools, and quantitative analyses to control the spread as well as the rapid development of a new treatment. This report is an exploratory analysis of the pandemic in India by studying data from 01 January 2020 to 31 July 2021 and comparing it with top 5 countries with highest confirmed and death cases as well as neighboring countries. The results of the analysis shows that compared to most countries, India has failed to reach a stable state due to the lack of coordination between different health agencies and the government. By the end of July, India has begun to increase the number of cases again, gaining a possibility to reach a third wave.
Keywords: India, COVID-19
Coronavirus disease 2019, commonly known as a COVID-19 is a contagious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The COVID-19 pandemic, which originated in the city of Wuhan, China, has quickly spread to various countries, with many cases having been reported worldwide. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern on 30 January 2020, and a pandemic on 11 March 2020. Since 2021, variants of the virus have emerged and become dominant in many countries, with the Delta, Alpha and Beta variants being the most virulent.
COVID-19 symptoms range from unnoticeable to life-threatening. The disease transmits when people breathe in air contaminated by droplets and small airborne particles and transmission can also occur, rarely, via contaminated surfaces or fluids. Several vaccines have been approved and distributed in various countries, which have initiated mass vaccination campaigns since December 2020. Other recommended preventive measures include social distancing, wearing face masks in public, ventilation and air-filtering, covering one’s mouth when sneezing or coughing, hand washing, disinfecting surfaces, and quarantining people exposed or symptomatic.
Currently, 221 Countries and Territories around the world have reported a total of 233,189,062 confirmed cases of the coronavirus COVID-19 and a death toll of 4,771,760 deaths. India is also among the top 5 countries with highest confirmed and death cases and is ranked second. This study aims to evaluate COVID – 19 related data of India in order to disseminate it to any interested parties.
Republic of India is a country in South Asia, which is the seventh-largest country by area with a total area of 3,287,263 square kilometers (1,269,219 sq mi). India is situated north of the equator between 8°4’ north to 37°6’ north latitude and 68°7’ east to 97°25’ east longitude. On the south, India projects into and is bounded by the Indian Ocean—in particular, by the Arabian Sea on the west, the Lakshadweep Sea to the southwest, the Bay of Bengal on the east, and the Indian Ocean proper to the south. It shares land borders with Pakistan to the west; China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the north; and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives; its Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand, Myanmar and Indonesia.
The geographical location of India can be further understood through the following Figure 01.
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